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<span id="other-gui-packages"></span><h1>25.6. Other Graphical User Interface Packages<a class="headerlink" href="#other-graphical-user-interface-packages" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>There are an number of extension widget sets to <a title="Interface to Tcl/Tk for graphical user interfaces" class="reference external" href="tkinter.html#module-Tkinter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Tkinter</span></tt></a>.</p>
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<p class="first admonition-title">See also</p>
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<dt><a class="reference external" href="http://pmw.sourceforge.net/">Python megawidgets</a></dt>
<dd><p class="first">is a toolkit for building high-level compound widgets in Python using the
<a title="Interface to Tcl/Tk for graphical user interfaces" class="reference external" href="tkinter.html#module-Tkinter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Tkinter</span></tt></a> module.  It consists of a set of base classes and a library of
flexible and extensible megawidgets built on this foundation. These megawidgets
include notebooks, comboboxes, selection widgets, paned widgets, scrolled
widgets, dialog windows, etc.  Also, with the Pmw.Blt interface to BLT, the
busy, graph, stripchart, tabset and vector commands are be available.</p>
<p class="last">The initial ideas for Pmw were taken from the Tk <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">itcl</span></tt> extensions <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[incr</span>
<span class="pre">Tk]</span></tt> by Michael McLennan and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[incr</span> <span class="pre">Widgets]</span></tt> by Mark Ulferts. Several of the
megawidgets are direct translations from the itcl to Python. It offers most of
the range of widgets that <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[incr</span> <span class="pre">Widgets]</span></tt> does, and is almost as complete as
Tix, lacking however Tix&#8217;s fast <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">HList</span></tt> widget for drawing trees.</p>
</dd>
<dt><a class="reference external" href="http://tkinter.effbot.org/">Tkinter3000 Widget Construction Kit (WCK)</a></dt>
<dd>is a library that allows you to write new Tkinter widgets in pure Python.  The
WCK framework gives you full control over widget creation, configuration, screen
appearance, and event handling.  WCK widgets can be very fast and light-weight,
since they can operate directly on Python data structures, without having to
transfer data through the Tk/Tcl layer.</dd>
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<p>The major cross-platform (Windows, Mac OS X, Unix-like) GUI toolkits that are
also available for Python:</p>
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<p class="first admonition-title">See also</p>
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<dt><a class="reference external" href="http://www.pygtk.org/">PyGTK</a></dt>
<dd>is a set of bindings for the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.gtk.org/">GTK</a> widget set. It
provides an object oriented interface that is slightly higher level than
the C one. It comes with many more widgets than Tkinter provides, and has
good Python-specific reference documentation. There are also bindings to
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.gnome.org">GNOME</a>.  One well known PyGTK application is
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.pythoncad.org/">PythonCAD</a>. An online <a class="reference external" href="http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html">tutorial</a> is available.</dd>
<dt><a class="reference external" href="http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/index.php">PyQt</a></dt>
<dd>PyQt is a <strong>sip</strong>-wrapped binding to the Qt toolkit.  Qt is an
extensive C++ GUI application development framework that is
available for Unix, Windows and Mac OS X. <strong>sip</strong> is a tool
for generating bindings for C++ libraries as Python classes, and
is specifically designed for Python. The <em>PyQt3</em> bindings have a
book, <a class="reference external" href="http://www.commandprompt.com/community/pyqt/">GUI Programming with Python: QT Edition</a> by Boudewijn
Rempt. The <em>PyQt4</em> bindings also have a book, <a class="reference external" href="http://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html">Rapid GUI Programming
with Python and Qt</a>, by Mark
Summerfield.</dd>
<dt><a class="reference external" href="http://www.wxpython.org">wxPython</a></dt>
<dd>wxPython is a cross-platform GUI toolkit for Python that is built around
the popular <a class="reference external" href="http://www.wxwidgets.org/">wxWidgets</a> (formerly wxWindows)
C++ toolkit.  It provides a native look and feel for applications on
Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix systems by using each platform&#8217;s native
widgets where ever possible, (GTK+ on Unix-like systems).  In addition to
an extensive set of widgets, wxPython provides classes for online
documentation and context sensitive help, printing, HTML viewing,
low-level device context drawing, drag and drop, system clipboard access,
an XML-based resource format and more, including an ever growing library
of user-contributed modules.  wxPython has a book, <a class="reference external" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932394621">wxPython in Action</a>, by Noel Rappin and
Robin Dunn.</dd>
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<p>PyGTK, PyQt, and wxPython, all have a modern look and feel and more
widgets than Tkinter. In addition, there are many other GUI toolkits for
Python, both cross-platform, and platform-specific. See the <a class="reference external" href="http://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming">GUI Programming</a> page in the Python Wiki for a
much more complete list, and also for links to documents where the
different GUI toolkits are compared.</p>
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